Book description
This anthology brings together the work of some of the major British poets of the last two hundred years:
William Blake
William Wordsworth
John Keats
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Thomas Hardy
Gerald Manley Hopkins
William Butler Yeats
Edward Thomas
D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
Wilfred Owen
W. H. Auden
Philip Larkin
Ted Hughes
Seamus Heaney
Each poet is represented by about seven complete poems, and brief biographies highlight the poet’s main themes and characteristic styles. Notes at the end of the book explain obscure allusions and lead the reader into the meaning of each poem and to a thoughtful response to its images, rhythms, and words.
